Ode to the Library Museum
An article by Erica X Eisen, published in the Paris Review, "Arts and Culture" section, July 24, 2018

“…as I walk through the galleries, as I survey the cases of books safe behind their glass, it occurs to me that if a book is a thing meant to be read, then in a certain sense, these objects have lost their function to all but the scholarly epigraphists, backs bent in the private study room. And yet far from becoming something less because of this, the books on display have become something more.”